It is a relic of the time when this road was one of the busiest in all England--the coaching trafficbetween London, York and Edinburgh plying over it.
Dusty and rough, and crowded with traffic and tram lines in many places, it wends through a cheerless and often uninteresting country.
There is considerable traffic and for several miles along one section are military barracks; the soldiers are maneuvering on the road with cavalry and artillery.
The streets were stalled withtraffic and running, shouting, fighting people.
Traffic officers, confused, frightened by the news which was bubbled at them from every side, gave wrong orders; accidents began to occur.
The Rue des Juifs sheltered the ancestral traffic of the children of Abraham.
A lower charge for the transit, and a comparatively healthy climate, are also additional inducements; and under these circumstances, anticipations are entertained that the great tide of traffic will be turned in the new direction.
At Panama, a cheap wooden railway is to be constructed, which will prove serviceable for much of the passenger-traffic to Peru and Chili; but the project for a canal at that point has been entirely given up.
If freight traffic by motor were charged with its proper and proportionate share of highway construction, we should find much of it wasteful and more costly than like service by rail.
This first ride on a London 'bus and the sights of the streettraffic were inspiring, but familiar to the mind's eye of the young American.
An hour later, on the top of a 'bus, Ralph sat watching the complicated movement of trafficin the London streets, directed by the helmeted policemen.
The parish almshouses were built in the wide part of Broad Street on ground granted by Lord Southampton, but were removed as an impediment to traffic in 1783 to the Coal Yard, near the north of Drury Lane.
From all reports, there is an immensetraffic of slaves that way exchanged against American goods, which are driving out of the markets all the merchandise of the north.
One of their chief articles of traffic is, I am sorry to say, their unfortunate fellow-creatures.
And, though her interest in the traffic had diminished, it had not wholly ceased.
That odious traffic was condemned by almost all Americans--even by those who were accustomed to domestic slavery, and could see little evil in it.
The pioneer of this traffic had been Sir John Hawkins, one of the boldest of the great Elizabethan sailors.
The charge was true so far at any rate as Virginia was concerned, for both that State and its neighbour, Maryland, had passed laws against the traffic and had seen them vetoed by the Crown.
The laws of the United States have denounced heavy penalties against the traffic in slaves, because such traffic is deemed unjust and inhuman.
This road was made in the time of the Antonines, to relieve the traffic on the Via Appia, and was called simply a New Way.
As the street advances into the city, along the entire course are shops and warehouses, conveying the grandest idea of the life, activity, and commercial traffic that must have prevailed in the city.
Being erected over the spot where the two roads intersecting the cattle-market met, it seems to have marked the central point of the traffic carried on in this space.
By selecting that way we will save a great deal of time, because traffic in the city is so congested that every driver has to travel slow and fall in line back of endless cars.
At every corner when the signal holds up the entire line one has to stop to permit crosstown traffic a chance.
A further adventitious help that Portland got was by being made the headquarters of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, which brought to its wharves the produce of the Columbia River trafficas well as that of the Willamette.
He twisted the car into the traffic again, and with a swift U-turn, headed the coupe toward home.
Jim shot an appraising look toward the deserted corner ahead, whipped the coupe up beside a traffic officer and opened the door.
As we drew near the south end of Rotterdam, or Anamocka, we were met by a number of canoes, laden with fruit and roots; but as I did not shorten sail, we had but little traffic with them.
On our return to the ship, I found the same sort of traffic carrying on there.
The people in them brought fortraffic various articles; some roots, fruits, and fowls, but of the latter not many.
Their traffic was much the same as it had been the day before, or rather better; for out of one canoe I got two pigs, which were scarce articles here.
Highest offices of magistracy and judicature, Church and State, were objects of a traffic almost as shameless as in Spain.
He took the opportunity, however, to enlarge with emphasis and eloquence upon that traffic as constituting the very lifeblood of the country.
When an Ismay, such as he who reformed the Anglo-American service, becomes interested in the passenger traffic to the Cape, he will find a multitude of little things to improve.
Next Monday the trains and railway will be occupied in bringing stores and machinery and cattle to supply the needs of the mining industry, and henceforward the traffic will be ordinary and uninterrupted between Cape Town and Bulawayo.
The Fleming sold his privilege to a company of Genoese merchants, who organized a systematic traffic in slaves between Africa and America.
Amid all this motion and traffic is that charm of silence which makes Venice so dream-like.
In this traffic also the purveyors are Chinese, who, while protesting, perhaps too much, against the importation of the drug into their own country, show no compunction whatever in distributing it broadcast among the people of other nations.
More than four miles from the river, there appeared to be little or no diminution in the number of the inhabitants, and the traffic was as great as at the mouth of the creek.
The only obstacles to this traffic are the presence of Emin Pacha at Wadelai, the English and American missionaries, and English trading-stations on Lakes Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika.
In great vexation at this disappointment, he was slowly plodding his way homeward, when he came in sight of the spot where he had made this unfortunate traffic with the roguish unknown.
But during the three weeks' traffic on his own account he had amassed a sufficient hoard of pennies for the purchase of several books in gaudy paper covers exposed for sale in the little stationer's shop round the corner.
Minos has now purified his courts in both cities from all trafficbut his own.
